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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things;

2. the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps;
[syn: contractor, declarer]

3. (law) a party to a contract;

4. a bodily organ that contracts;
[syn: contractile organ, contractor]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Contractor \Con*tract"or\, n. [L.]
   One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who
   covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who
   contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a
   certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a
   railroad.
   [1913 Webster]